Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forcible rape.' It takes a while to get used to that phrase," writes Ghita Schwartz (October 16). "What's rape when it isn't forcible? There's statutory rape, there's acquaintance rape, there's male rape, but rape is always `forcible...
Pardon me, but a lot of high school sweethearts would take exception. "Statutory rape" is a label applied to any sexual intercourse--consensual or not--with a woman under 18. Any man who had a sexually active relationship at this age is a statutory rapist. (Yes, that includes even magical moonlit nights after the junior prom...
...equate all teenage sex with forcible rape isn't feminist, but Falwellian. Schwartz should be more careful. Andrew Sabl...
Against these powers, it seems impossible for ordinary people to tip the scales toward a view of rape that condemns rapists, not victims, just by protesting terms like "forcible rape." But ordinary people can count for a lot; after all, what influences our cultural views of rape if not everyday conversation...
...political leaders can count for a lot, too. That's why we need politicians who advocate abortion rights and public funding of abortions for all women, not just rape victims. No woman should be forced to have a child because she could not prove she was the victim of rape. No woman should be punished for the simple wish to protect the privacy of her own body--a privacy violated by rape, incestuous rape, and the restriction of abortion...